Performance

Roles: performer, audience, role, stage, script, act, scene, rehearsal, curtain

The domain of theatrical and staged presentation — actors playing roles before an audience, following scripts, entering and exiting a defined space. Performance involves the distinction between the person and the character they inhabit, the separation of backstage (authentic) from onstage (presented), and the temporal structure of acts and scenes. As a source domain, it maps social behavior onto scripted action, identity onto role-playing, and life transitions onto entrances and exits.

As Source Frame (4)

• Idols of the Theatre → intellectual-inquiry
• Life Is a Performance → life-course
• Roles Are Theatrical Costumes → access-control
• True Self / False Self → mental-experience, organizational-behavior

Applied To This Frame (1)

• comedy-craft → Callback